Thomas Stanley, born on 3 September 1625 and dead on 12 April 1678, was one of the most cultivated English writers of the seventeenth century: a lyric poet of the Cavalier age, a translator of Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish literature, an editor of Aeschylus, a patron and friend of writers, and the author of the first substantial history of philosophy written in English. His name has never carried the imm…
“He who rests satisfied with the general relation of affairs, not fixing upon some eminent actor in that story, loseth its greatest benefit.”
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Cavalier Poets, Love Poets, Metaphysical Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Richard Crashaw (c.1613 – 25 August 1649) stands as one of the most distinctive and polarising voices of seventeenth-century English poetry. A poet of spiritual excess, luminous devotion, and baroque extravagance, Crashaw occupies a singular position among the so-called Metaphysical poets. Where contemporaries such as Donne and Herbert often balance intellectual ingenuity with restraint, Crashaw abandons moderation a…
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Devotional Poets, Metaphysical Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
